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Color. — As in the related species the general color is a light huff 

 darkened by a plentiful sprinkling <>f black hair-tips, the huff everywhere 

 predominating, and becoming clearer and more yellowish along sides, 

 particularly in region of shoulder. A faintly indicated pale area 

 between cars. Underparts and feet dull white with a slight huffy tinge; 

 throat crossed by a broad hand of dull huff, this area sometimes extending 

 backward along median line. Ear with the usual dark marking on 

 outer side. 



Measurements. — Type: head and body, 181; hind foot, 29(26); ear, 

 20. Skull: condylobasal length, 40.0 (42.4);* zygomatic breadth, 20.4 

 (21.2); interorhital constriction, 4.2 (4.2); postorbital constriction, 

 13.2 (13.S); mastoid breadth including bullae, 20.8 (22.0); depth of 

 braincase at middle, 11.0(11.4); nasal, 15.0 (15.0); diastema, 9.8(10.8). 

 mandible, 27. '2 (30.2); maxillary toothrow, alveoli, 7.4 (8.6); mandibu- 

 lar toothrow, alveoli, 7.4 (S.4). 



Specimens examined. — Seven; six from the type locality and one 

 from Tsai-chiah-tsuei, 116 miles east of Lanchow, Kansu (altitude 

 6,300 feet). 



* Measurements in parenthesis are those of an adult male Ochotona bedfordi from 

 Wu-tsai, Shansi, China (No. 172,601). 



